Callie's Gym is a complete fitness center. Owner Callie Ducain employs various fitness trainers who are expected to staff the desk and to teach fitness classes. While on the front desk, trainers answer the phone, handle walk-ins and show them around the gym, answer member questions about the weight machines, and do light cleaning (wiping down the equipment, vacuuming the floor). The trainers also teach fitness classes (e. g., pilates, spinning, body pump) according to their own interest and training level. The cost of the fitness trainers is $600 per month and $30 per class taught. Last month, 100 classes were taught and five trainers were employed. Required:
1. Develop a cost equation for total cost of labor.
2. What was total variable labor cost last month?
3. What was total labor cost last month?
4. What was the unit cost of labor (per class) for last month?
5. What if Callie increased the number of classes offered by 50 percent?
a. What would be the total labor cost?
b. The unit labor cost? If required, round your answer to the nearest cent.
c. Why did the unit labor cost decrease?

Sara is a manager at a restaurant with employees from different cultural backgrounds. which action of sara could employees perceive as an act of favoritism?

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows.direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow.fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.

Martha is one producer in the perfectly competitive jelly industry. last year, martha and all of her competitors found themselves earning economic profits. if there is free entry and exit, what do you expect to happen to the number of suppliers in the industry and the price of jelly? the number of suppliers will increase, and the price of jelly will fall. the number of suppliers will decrease, and the price of jelly will increase. the number of suppliers will increase, and the price of jelly will increase. the number of suppliers will decrease, and the price of jelly will fall.